Toronto After Dark: EEGA, WE ARE WHAT WE ARE And THE BATTERY Win Big

Our apologies to the staff and crew at Toronto After Dark. We are a little tardy in sharing with you the award winners at this year's festival.

Really, to no one's surprise, Tollywood flick Eega flew away with nine awards in the Feature Film - Specialty Category Award Winners. But it did not have the juice to win an audience award; though it did inspire a couple attendees to make their own custom Eega shirts! Nope. The Audience Award Winners were rightfully won by the The Battery taking home the Gold Prize and surprisingly Canadian feature Solo took home Silver and The Banshee Chapter took home Bronze.

Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to announce the Award Winners of its 8th Annual Edition. As is tradition at Toronto After Dark, the Jury were the fans themselves with over 4,200 votes cast this year by festival-goers to determine the best new horror, sci-fi, action and cult movies from the around the world!

Post-apocalyptic indie zombie road trip movie THE BATTERY may have had a small budget but it won audiences over big time at Toronto After Dark 2013 to win the festival's Top Prize, the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM, GOLD. SILVER went to the suspenseful island-set thriller SOLO , while terrifying CIA mind control horror BANSHEE CHAPTER nabbed the BRONZE.

In the Specialty Categories, THE BATTERY also scored wins for BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST MUSIC AND BEST POSTER. But the biggest specialty winner was Indian housefly revenge movie EEGA which was left buzzing after winning a festival record 9 Awards from fans including BEST ACTION, BEST COMEDY AND MOST ORIGINAL FILM. Jim Mickle's Sundance and Cannes-selected cannibal family horror drama WE ARE WHAT WE ARE also received four high profile specialty awards from fans including BEST DIRECTOR AND BEST HORROR FILM while BEST SCI-FI FILM went to the stylish android thriller THE MACHINE.

With a wide range of genre programming and audience tastes, Toronto After Dark fans also bestowed awards to a number of other films in different specialty categories screening at the festival including Feature Films, Short Films and the specially created 8th Anniversary Festival Bumpers.

So there you have it. Festival circuit favorites like Big Bad Wolves were left huffing and puffing outside of Grandma's house and smaller, lesser known films made a bigger impact on the Toronto audience this year. It does leave me wondering what would happen if there were actual Jury competitions at this festival. But. If I may sway a line of dialogue from Don Thacker's Motivational Growth (Which I Loved!!!)...

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